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Grlffin Daily News
State Won’t Call
All 61 Witnesses
In Mobley Case
AMERICUS, Ga. (UPI)—U.S.
Atty. Floyd Buford said the
government will wind up its
bank robbery-murder case a
gainst Leroy Mobley, a Negro
teacher, without having to call
all of the prosecution’s 61 wit
nesses.
Tuesday, Timothy Moon, the
principal of the school at Mon
tezuma where 27-year-old Mob
ley was a teacher, said he dis
covered $2,311 in change hid
den behind a stack of books in
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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1966
Mobley’s classroom.
FBI agent Marion Cheek tes
tified that hidden along with
the eight bags of change in the
classroom were three brass
keys. He said two of the keys
fit the front lock of the Ex
change Bank of Unadilla which
Mobley is accused of robbing
the night of March 8.
The government says Mobley
and an accomplice kidnaped the
president of the bank, Thomas
E. Woodruff, forced him to let
them inside the bank where
they stole $3,478, and then shot
and beat Woodruff, who died
three days later.
Cheek also testified that he
discovered $756 hidden in the
loft of the Paradise Inn, a cafe
and dance hall owned by Mob
ley. 100
One of the more than ex
hibits produced by the prosecu
tion was an iron rod that al
legedly was found in Mobley’s
possession. An official from the
state crime laboratory has tes
tified that Woodruff was beaten
with a “heavy, blunt Instru
ment.”
The state also put on exhibit
several throw rugs that Charles
Jackson, manager of an auto
agency In Macon, said were in
a car that had been repossessed
from Mobley after the robbery.
A doctor who treated Wood
ruff said the 71-year-old bank
president told him he had been
Quirks
DISAPPEARING ACT
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)
—Paul Pena went to the house
he rents to clean it and noticed
the doors were gone. He
returned later and the windows
had been stolen.
When he walked inside, he
looked up to find the roof
thrown into the back of a car
and covered with throw rugs.
Mobley is being tried under a
rarely used statute that could
result in the death sentence.
The law makes bank robbery a
federal crime if a hostage is
taken or if a death results. His
alleged companion, Andrew Ol
iver, has pleaded guilty in a
state court.
missing.
He reported the thefts to
police.
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JOB IMPEDIMENT
HIGGINS, Tex. (UPI) —
Sirens screamed and volunteer
firemen sprinted to the fire
house to grab their helmets and
jump in the fire truck. But
black, acrid smoke stopped
them.
Wind had filled the fire
station with smoke from an
electrical fire in a power plant
behind the station. The volun
teers finally groped through the
smoke, got their equipment and
Lighter Side
Advance Dope On
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Dur
ing a recent trip to the Far
East, Rep. Robert McClory, R-
111., attended a committee
meeting in the Japanese Diet
(parliament).
“Although I understood not a
word, the session seemed not
unlike a session of a committee
of the U.S. House of Represen
tatives,” he reported upon his
return.
McClory and I must have
something in common. Not
understanding what was going
on would have made me feel
right at home, too.
The second session of the
89th Congress is barely a week
old and already my comprehen
sion has been strongly chal
lenged.
‘‘Surprise” Party
The office of Rep. John S.
Monagan, D-Conn., set the pace
before the session opened by
putting out a news release
reporting that his staff had
given him a “surprise” birth
day party.
What made the affair so
novel was the fact that the
press release describing it
reached the House press
gallery three days before the
party was held.
It was the first time I had
ever run across a post-dated
surprise. Apparently the staff
wanted to make sure that
Monagan wasn’t surprised re
troactively.
I was still puzzling over that
when I came upon a news
Foreign Commentary
Disaster Not
In Boycott Plan
By PHIL NEWSOM
EPI Foreign News Analyst
Disaster not included in
Britain’s boycott plans is
sweeping rebel Rhodesia.
When a little more than two
months ago Britain embargoed
oil shipments, cut off credits
and imposed other economic
sanctions against the all-white
government of Rhodesian Pre
mier Ian Smith, it believed that
these alone would be sufficient
to bring the government down.
The objective was to force
Rhodesia back to the “constitu
tional path,’’ which in British
eyes meant eventual Rhodesian
rule by the country’s four
million blacks as opposed to
250,000 whites.
What Britain did not take into
account was a drought sweep
ing across not only Rhodesia
but South Africa as well. It has
placed Britain in a strange
position.
Parched Lands
From Middle Rhodesia south
ward through Matabeleland,
grazing lands are bare through
lack of rainfall.
In an attempt to save
something, the government is
trying to move 200,000 head of
cattle from the parched south
land to the better watered
areas northward.
But even to the north, the
maize fields have withered and
farmers have been supplied
with sorghum seed to replace
the lost maize.
Thousands of families, it is
feared, will face starvation.
Faced with an unplanned
catastrophe threatening Rhode
sian blacks and whites alike,
Britain solved her dilemma in
manner not calculated to please
Rhodesia’s Black African neigh-
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RECRUITER TALKS TO LEGION
Members of the American Legion Post here heard an Army recruiter tell of the
value of a high school education to men entering the service this week. Sgt.
Fred J. Helton, army recuiter for this area, discussed the importance of education
for potential army recruits. Shown here are (1-r) Bill Baxter of Zebulon, sixth
district commander of the Georgia Department; Bill Rosel of Senoia, a depart
ment vice commander; Sgt. Helton, and Pat Murphy, commander of the Griffin
post and head of the Veterans Affairs office here.
release from Rep. Charles E.
Bennett, D-Fla., which mysti
fied me further. It said:
“U.S. Rep. Charles E
Bennett, who holds the all-time
record In Congress for roll call
votes, said Sunday he would
introduce legislation designed
to prohibit demonstrations
which impair United States
military operations.”
It took me several hours to
figure out what Bennett’s
attendance record has to do
with the bill. But finally the
connection became clear.
He’ll be There
If they ever have a roll call
on his bill, Bennett more than
likely will be there to vote for
it.
It was, however, another
Florida Democrat, Rep. Robert
F. L. Sikes, who left me
completely baffled. He issued a
news release with a heading
that read: “Time to get those
recreation projects started."
“In most Instances, federal
funds can be made available to
help in the programs,” he
wrote.
Then, directly below that
item, he penned a few more
paragraphs calling for the
curtailment of domestic pro
grams for the duration of the
Viet Nam war.
“I am convinced the nation
doesn’t expect both guns and
butter and doesn’t want It,” he
wrote.
I can only assume that those
recreation projects he wasn’t to
start with federal funds are
classified as margarine.
bors determined to bring down
government by whatever
means.
Together with Canada and
Australia, Britain will supply
emergency grain to stricken
Central African areas—Includ
ing Rhodesia. Explained a
British official:
“Starvation has no place in
our sanctions scheme.’
Before a British Common
wealth meeting in Lagos,
Nigeria, last week Prime
Minister Harold Wilson empha
sized that Britain remains firm
in its determination to bring
down the Smith regime and
even will increase the severity
of its sanctions.
Strident Attitude
The stiff upper lip continued
to prevail among white Rhode
sians confident of Smith’s
ability to bring them through.
But there was, in fact, evidence
that the sanctions already were
hurting.
The cut in gasoline suoplies
was putting many a Rhodesian
on foot.
After a huge Christmas rush
of customer buying, many
shops in Salisbury, the capital,
were laying off white workers.
And. while many of the
effects of the British boycott
had been anticipated by the
Salisbury government, there
also was evidence that the
planning had not gone far
enough.
The Smith government im
posed and then withdrew a tax
on coal shipments to neighbor
ing Zambia when it became
apparent that Zambia could get
the coal elsewhere. The hope
that others besides the United
States and Britain would keep
oil flowing through the pipeline
Voting Rights
Bill In Hands
Of Court
By CHARLOTTE MOULTON
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Hie
Supreme Court is expected to
announce as soon as possible its
judgment on the constitutionali
ty of the Voting Rights Act of
1965 .
How soon the opinion will be
forthcoming depends mostly on
how far apart in their views the
nine justices find themselves.
Hie court took the case under
advisement Tuesday after two
days of arguments in which six
Southern states attacked the
law and U.S. Atty, Gen.
Nicholas Katzenbacb, assisted
by Massachusetts and New
Jersey, defended it.
At the close of arguments
Chief Justice Earl Warren said
the case has “wide and
profound implications in the life
of our nation.”
He said the court Is indebted
to the attorneys for their 1
“scholarly and lawyer-like pre- ‘
sentations, both oral and f
written," and noted that more
than half the 50 states
contributed to the case in one
way or another.
The challenge to the law was
filed directly In the Supreme
Court by South Carolina.
Supporting arguments were
made by Virginia, Louisiana,
Alabama, Mississippi and Geor
gia.
These six are the states
directly affected by the Voting
Right Act suspension of literacy
and other voter qualification
tests to register Negroes.
The statute applies to them
because less than 50 per cent of
their voting age population was
registered on Nov. 1, 1964 or
voted in the presidential
election that year.
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WASHINGTON’S birthday,
Feb. 22, is the date of issue
for this new 5-center in
Washington. It will be the
third in a series of 18 “prom
inent Americans’’ stamps.
The illustration is from a
portrait by Rembrandt Peale
as adapted by Bill Hyde ct
San Francisco, who also did
the current Lincoln stamp.
HEAVY HAUL
MONTARA, Calif. (UPI) —
Athorities in this San Francis
co Peninsula community are
trying to figure out why thieves
stole seven manhole covers
from the streets.
The covers weigh 150 pounds
and cost $266 apiece. The theft
was discovered Tuesday morn
ing.
VAUGHN REPLACEMENT
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Am
bassador Lincoln Gordon is
returning from Brazil to
become assistant secretary of
state for inter-American af
fairs. He will succeed Jack
Hood Vaughn, who was named
Peace Corps director by
President Johnson.
across Rhodesia also has come
to naught.
At Lagos Wilson refused to
set a deadline for a Rhodesian
collapse but he remained
confident that it would come.